User talk:Angela

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Wikipedia Mirror in Georgia & Mediawiki Translation

Hello Angela, i´m contacting you from Georgia (Europe), i´m presenting myself as member of Georgian Internet Alliance. We have some plans around one project about Open Source Software, Community Portal, support and open documentation & etc. Maybe we can help wikipedia/wikimedia to make it´s mirror on our future server in Georgia to help local visitors view wikipedia much faster, effective. We need to know, how is possible to make only ka.wikipedia.org-s mirror for first step and then whole your database.

We are officialy working under translation of KDE, mozilla, opera, & other free software. Currently we are now little busy to work under translations, while we are organizing several projects and portals but i think it will be done with mediawiki translation in a week. Main programming-specific part is already done, but i have not uploaded it on sourceforge yet.

Also we want to help wikpedia editors to communicate - we will create special section and we also plan to add mediawiki engine for tests.

Sorry for my broken english.

Please contact us in the forum: http://www.gia.ge/forum/index.php?board=5.0 (it may be under construction/alpha stage).

or within online chat:

ICQ: 278791298

MSN: giomac@rambler.ru

Yahoo: george_machitidze

e-mail: giomac@gmail.com

Thank You.

George Machitidze, Georgian Internet Alliance, http://www.gia.ge

01:08, 5 December 2005 (GET)

Have you contacted anyone else about this? I'm not sure I really understand what you're asking. Angela 06:47, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

No, i have not. I need to talk to someone, who will help us to organize some specific part of all this (mainly technical suite). Sorry for my broken english.

02:18, 13 December 2005 (GET)

If the issue is a technical one, I'd advise you contact the developers' mailing list. Angela 16:01, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Ok, thanks, i´ll inform you about it later.

Happy New Year Angela! No news. Can you contact person, who will help me in this?

It might be best to send a reminder to that list, along with some specific points you need help with. The first mail didn't really explain what you needed, and I don't think people are likely to join that forum to ask what you need. If you use IRC, asking on the #mediawiki channel on freenode might be a better way to get a response. See meta:IRC channels for details. Angela 09:46, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Angela, i have contacted them via IRC. It seems, that bulding mirror is impossible due security and flexibility, controlling problems, only cache-servers allowed, but we will contact your team about it at FOSDEM 2006 meeting in Belgium. You may delete this record if you wish it. Huge thanks for help!

Happy New Year

For last year's words belong to last year's language

And next year's words await another voice.

And to make an end is to make a beginning.

T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"

Happy New Year! ≈ jossi ≈ t • @ 20:24, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank you! Angela . 19:05, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Second-hand hardware

Hi Angela,

Do you happen to know if there's been any discussion relatively recently about using second-hand hardware (for the squid or apache computers)? The only thing I've found about the possibility of that is in Meta:What we use the money for which is over a year old. I also tried asking at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Second-hand_hardware, and there were some people in favour and against, and one person saying that rack space is a limiting factor, but no links to discussions of the proposal.

Thanks, Andjam 00:33, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

PS: Happy new year, and I hope you escape from Mexico soon!

I can't think of any links, but you might want to search the archives of the wikitech-l mailing list, or try asking there. Angela . 19:05, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Help finding the right copyright tag

Hello :-) You were listed as one of the Wikipedians who have volunteered to help members with their image copyright questions. If I am the original author/creator of an image, such as a photograph, what would be the appropriate copyright tag to select when uploading, if I wanted to grant a non-commercial license exclusively to Wikipedia, reserving the right to be attributed as the source and the copyright holder, and prohibiting the image form being altered? All I can find are "for any purpose" licenses that allow "altering," which I don't think I fancy. Thank you. --AladdinSE 10:11, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Hello. Non-commercial licenses and licenses exclusive to Wikipedia are not acceptable since we are aiming to produce a free encyclopedia, so the content needs to reusable by others. Since this is a wiki, you need to expect your work will be altered by others, so you can't specify that it can not be altered. Outside of Wikipedia, the Creative Commons by-nc-nd would be a license that prevents commercial work and derivative versions, but this would be deleted if you tried to use such a license on Wikipedia. If you change your mind and want the image to be used on Wikipedia, the most commonly chosen license would be GFDL ({{GFDL-self}}) or GFDL dual-licensed with a Creative Commons license such as by-sa ({{Cc-by-sa-2.5}}). Angela . 19:05, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. I always expected my prose to be altered by others on Wikipedia, but I was rather unsure of things like photographs. I was worried about a vague notion of "malicious changes" to my photographs which might reflect badly on me as the creator or on the subjects of the photos. I thought that as long as Wikipedia didn't have to pay for the content uploaded by its editors, and Internet readers didn't have to pay to use it as a reference, that this satisfied the free content principle. It bothered me that commercial interests would be able to take my photographs off of Wikipedia and utilize them for profit. But if it must be so, it must. I expect I'll be using GFDL-self on Wikipedia. Thank you for your help. --AladdinSE 23:29, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Consulting

Hi I have been asked/informed about a short term consulting position at the International Rice Research Institute in the Phillipines, they are looking for people with wiki experience and an understanding of molecular biology and international agriculture to help them with their wikis. I'm not sure I'd quite fit the bill, and have asked for more information, I was wondering if you knew of anyone that might be "qualified" that I could also foward the information to. --nixie 15:26, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

I think Anthere would be qualified for this. You might also want to ask on either the village pump or the wikien-l mailing list to see if anyone is interested in this. Angela. 15:40, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Spread your wings!

I hereby award you these wings for your tireless contribution to the wiki-comunity to the point of traveling over seas for wiki-community as well as spending time on inteviews etc (too many things to simply list). Generally people forget to say when a job is well done. Obviously I don't. ^-^' --Cool Cat^Talk|@ 17:32, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you! :) Angela. 19:32, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

I second this.

P.S. - I still think it is nice to meet you. -MegamanZero|Talk 09:36, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Happy New Year

Regards, Arno 09:32, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you

For intervening on my behalf. That anon user whose sockpuppets include User:Vesa and User:Projects, and who knows what else, keeps adding his point-of-view (and poorly written) stuff to the George Reeves page, and who knows what else. He shows signs of being a lunatic, to put it technically. :) Wahkeenah 18:58, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Hey Angie!

Hey Angie whats up long time no talk!

Anyways I just wanted to let you know, Im inviolved in the elections here as a candidate.

Well I hope to hear a line from you soon. Thanks! , and God bless you!

Your friend always, Antonio Fashion Do Mertin

HHG Logo - Questions

Is it O.K. for the Helping Hand Group to use their current logo? I beleive permission is required, so I am asking you.

Is it alright for the HHG to use the logo?

The Neokid 13:56, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

We're still working on a policy for Uses of logo derivatives. It would be useful if you could link this logo from this page so we can consider it when developing the policy. Angela 04:19, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Wikistats

I hope you are doing well. I would fix them if I could, but there are some errors on the statistics page that have been there for some time - [1]. Under "Wikipedia Statistics All languages", the December 10th line appears to be incorrect. It states that we have 727 million words and 6.1 GB, etc. Two lines below it, however, we see that we had 856 million words and 7.1 GB in November. I've never seen this kind of reversal - if this is correct, we somehow managed to lose about 129 million words in the course of a month or so. Model Citizen 19:21, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

I've no idea what would cause that. The best person to ask is Erik Zachte since he's the one who makes the scripts to create those stats. Angela. 20:23, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Naming conventions for television shows (again)

I saw that you were active in the first vote for naming conventions of television program(mes). Well it has raised it's ugly head again and I would appreciate any comments you have to make about my new proposal for naming television shows. Please leave comments here. Thanks! --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 21:42, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Inactive BCrats

Would you consider demoting some of the long-inactive bureaucrats, like user:Optim back to sysop. I would be more likely to support new BCrats if they replaced inactive ones. 1/2 of BCrats are not even active anymore. This is an important wikipedia task, if you can no longer do it or are no longer willing, then someone else should get the job. I don't want a bunch of inactive BCrat accounts floating around waiting to be comprimised. I think that demoting seems like a reasonable think to do in this case. Only Stewards like you can do this though. Thank.

BTW. Your page has a really pretty picture now! Much better than the old one.Voice of All^T|@|ESP 04:24, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

I would prefer if inactive bureaucrats (and admins) had their access removed, but that isn't my decision to make. There'd have to be community consensus before you could ask a steward to change this (and you should ask one not involved with the English Wikipedia since they're not meant to deadmin people on their own wiki except at the request of that user). There isn't any process for de-bureaucratship on this wiki, so it might not be easy to get this to happen. Thanks for the compliment on the photo. Angela. 13:09, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Currently I am opposing the new BCrat nominee due to this issue. I want to see something done about all of these inactive BCrats before just making new ones. We have have enough active Bcrats to get by and with Francs2000 promoted, there is little need for more BCrats. I would not mind replacing the inactive 1/2 though.Voice of All^T|@|ESP 16:05, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

I, too, am of the opinion that we have enough Bureaucrats, and recently tweaked the list at Wikipedia:Bureaucrats to reflect the actual bureaucratic activity of those with The Power, such as it is (moving a couple to "inactive"). As Bureaucrats have a very limited area of responsibilty, it seems only logical that we should take a "You don't use it, you loose it" attitude similar to the standards set up for Stewards. Bureaucratship has become, IMO, more of a status symbol than an actual tool, which is borne out by the fact that ten of our twenty-two Bureaucrats are inactive (with at least an additional two [Secretlondon and Ilyanep, specifically; see Wikipedia_talk:Bureaucrats] that should be considered inactive, as well). --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 18:24, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Lunixbreak, Nichalps, Cecropia, Francs2000 are the main Bcrats now. 1/2 where listed as inactive, but really only 1/5 to 1/4, or 20 to 25% are trurely (at least somewhat regularly) active. Around 80% are just people with a "high title". How could we not already have a policy for this? I am already seeing what I can do about it, just like when Myskerity and I kept pushing semi-protection. I hope you (Angela), will help out with this effort, as you have much sway.Voice of All^T|@|ESP 18:28, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Just wanted to note that I'm still here and I call the next promotion ;) I just never get there when a nomination has ended :\ —Ilyanep (Talk) 19:27, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps this discussion should move to Wikipedia talk:Bureaucrats? Angela. 23:37, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

De-sysoping

Hi Angela, how's things?

I've been approached by an administrator who is leaving the project, asking how he can get de-sysoped. What is the process of getting oneself de-sysoped? I shan't give his details here in case others don't know of his intention to leave. Cheers. -- Francs2000 23:12, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for that. I think he's only trying to keep it under his hat for now so that his talk page doesn't get flooded with "please don't go" messages. -- Francs2000 23:44, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Interlangs on user pages (revisited)

I seem to recall you once told me you didn't like to use interlanguage links on your user pages (some of them, anyway). You should know, therefore, that there's a bot (on a few different wikis) that's adding interlanguage links to user pages. For example, here's its edit of your Romanian user page. I've asked the owner of this bot to stop changing user pages. - dcljr (talk) 01:18, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for telling me. I tend to use interlanguage links on my user pages a lot more now than I did when I said that, since it's useful for navigation around related languages, which outweighs the risk of more cross-wiki vandalism of my user page. So, if someone thinks it useful to link my Romanian page, I won't revert it. It might be more of a problem on en, though I upset a lot fewer vandals than I used to, so it's not much of an issue. Angela. 03:58, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Changing username

Hello Angela,

I got your username from the Bureaucrats page. Anyway, I need my username changed, for privacy reasons, from User:Anthonyiamurri to User:un sogno modesto, if you wouldn't mind. Thank you, and sorry for the inconvenience!

Anthonyiamurri 05:43, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

• Thank you very much! - Un sogno modesto 20:01, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanx for the name change

Just so you know ;) However, editcount returns no edits for my new user. So it's like I had started anew :( Can you do something about it? I had more than 600 edits, so...

--Doppelgangland 15:20, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

• I tried it again today and it works fine. Excuse my impatience. Cheers. --Doppelgangland 08:30, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza

Hi Angela! I've always been in awe of you here and this is just a message to enquire as to why you decided to leave Esperanza. You're a very influential person here on-wiki (as you know ;)) and I wondered how we could improve as to get your support for us back. Thanks a bunch! --Celestianpower ^háblame 20:13, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Oh no, no, no and no. Talk in IRC ;). --Celestianpower ^háblame 20:53, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

As I said on IRC, absolutely not! I was doing housekeeping, removing people who hadn't used the channel and/or thier access in more than 12 weeks (three months) and pulled yours. I have restored it personally, and am happy to see you've rejoined us. (Crossposting to User talk:Celestianpower.) Essjay ^{Talk • Contact} 21:23, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

<breathes sigh of relief> I've got the membership list of EA on my watchlist so I can help welcome new members. I saw you'd gone, rushed over here and saw that others were at work and then saw that you were back. I'm very pleased! Esperanza needs all its members, but especially the ones who are active on the 'pedia, respected and just plain nice. So I'm glad you're staying with us! This message is a bit of a waste of server space, but there we go! Stay happy! ➨ ❝REDVERS❞ 21:38, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks all. I thought I wasn't active enough to stay on the list, but I've been convinced that I should stay anyway. :) Angela. 21:49, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Pets wikicity

Thanks for your help on my wiki, but how do i get more people interested in the pets wikicity? No one seems to want to help expand.--CHIMES 20:44, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

I'll reply on that wiki. Angela. 20:49, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Sandra Gould

Someone keeps changing Gould's year of birth from 1916 to 1926. It is ridiculous. Can you protect the page??

Thanks!! 67.101.192.188 22:24, 17 January 2006 (UTC) (email address: rms125a@hotmail.com)

It has only happened a couple of times, so I think it is too soon to protect the page. Perhaps if you cite a source for this change, there would be no need for it to be reverted. Angela. 22:30, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Permision to use Wikipedia Logo

Hello Angela,

Let me introduce myself. I am Manjithkaini a bureaucrat with Malayalam Wikipedia and a well-wisher of Wikimedia Foundation. My message comes here with a request.

Though the Malayalam edition of Wikipedia runs behind other wikis in number of articles, the participation and user creation is in its boom. The main reason for the lack of articles is the Malayalam language didn’t have much Unicode Fonts. We, a group of Malayalis residing in various countries like USA, Japan etc have made this possible. Now we have fonts and Unicode supported transliteration softwares - important tools for wiki editing in Malayalam.

With these tools we are planning a competition in Kerala, the homeland of Malayalam language, to promote Wikipedia participation. We would like to represent ourselves as Malayalam Wikimedia Community and conduct the competition to popularize Wikis among school, college students and among elders in our homeland.

As you know we will need a number of posters and other publicity materials for this. Hence the need of a Banner and Emblem to get identified. We will be grateful if the Wikimedia Foundation grant us permission to use the banner Malayalam Wikimedia Community and also to use the Wikipedia emblem through out our campaigns.

Manjithkaini 05:34, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you Angela for the quick response. But we are planning to launch the campaign atleast by the end of January. Any possiblity of getting some good news before that?

--Manjithkaini 15:55, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Username change

My old usernames were User:Lehla and User:Special Editor, can you merge those accounts into this one? --User:Carie 20:42, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, but it's not possible for me to merge accounts. I can only rename an account into something that doesn't already exist. There is a page for Changing attribution for an edit, but that service is currently disabled. Angela. 22:10, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Wikihalo

Thank you! Angela. 11:52, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Move of a good page form en: to simple: ?

Hello Angela, I stumbled upon the articvle in the english wikipedia about spiders en:Spider, and I have tried to get that to simple:Spider, before simplifying the good article. Now I was told that the prover way of moving pages was using export/import (which I cannot do, since I lack the privileges). Could you therefore please move en:Spider and en:Spider web to simple (I don't believe we need all those sinlge spider entries). Please replace thwe current content of Spider: in simple, as all it is is an attempt of mine to move the en: page.

Thank you Eptalon 18:29, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Bashkir bureraucrate

Hi, Angela! Something changed in Wikipedia, since I requested for adminship last time. ba:User:Рөстәм Нурыев is requesting for bureaucrate status. I'm, an only admin of Bashkir wiki, but I'd only systop rights. Röstäm understand only Russian and Bashkir languages, so he can't request and he asked me to do it. Thanks, --Untifler 18:42, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

As for his experience, it's not too soon, because he's the first Bashkir speaking wikipedian. Another part of community isn't currently active. Adminship needs him to translate wikipedian interface to Bashkir to attract more community later. Be sure that noone wikipedianwill be oppose! ----Untifler 17:03, 25 January 2006 (UTC)Untifler 16:59, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Wiki philosphy and approach

Angela - it was hearing you on Radio 4 months ago that first got me involved in Wikipedia and since then I have encouraged many others to become contributors, my grown up children included. I work as User:Velela but several of us , using our own user names, use the same PC for editing and sometimes jointly edit or contribute. We hope that this helps to bring some knowledge and experience from some older minds into Wikipedia - certainly we can remeber facts long forgotten by some. This approach has come up against an admin view that because several of us use the same IP address that we are de facto sock puppets and , over the last couple of days my access has been blocked. I guess I can live with that although the reasoning is flawed and seems to be a degree of angst in one admin User:Snottygobble because I dared to improve one of his articles (Geoffrey Bolton). The use of blocking against vandalism seems an exemplary policy but to use it to suppress change and improvement is more reminsicent of more totalitarian regimes. I would welcome your views.